Katherine Cory

Manchester, England

Hello! I design brands and build websites for small businesses and non profits. Want to work with me? Email me at hello@katherinecory.com!

branding, digital design, drupal, front-end, graphic design, logo, responsive design, ui, ux, web design

Work with me! Well this is a double whammy post! I am available for hire and I have a new brand! First of all, I am on the look out for work; I’ve had a project delayed so I’m looking to work with start up and small organisations on branding or website projects. I’m a dab hand at front-end or Drupal too! Feel free to get in touch if you think we’d be a good fit! Secondly, I have been rebranding for what se...
The Roaming Dough Ideas Earlier in the year, I worked with Suzanne from the Roaming Dough. The business is a start up and they make artisan woodfired pizzas out of a oven at pop up events and markets throughout the East Midlands. My brief was to create a logo combining clean and simple typography with a mark inspired by travel and the process of making pizza.
The Roaming Dough Ideas 2 I usually work in black and white when I'm developing ideas so I can focus on the design and not be distracted by colour. However, I wanted to create a series of concepts that layered up type so I needed a contrast and accent colour to show how these ideas could come alive and pop! I feel these ideas represent the handmade and artisan element of Suzanne's pizzas, reflect well the indie busines...
The Roaming Dough idea development Suzanne was really drawn to the pizza board and the pizza cutter marks but was torn between using handwritten inspired typefaces and clean and simple typefaces. To help develop the design, I stripped the colour out to regain some focus and experimented with different pizza board shapes. At this point, it was clear the final logo would either have clean typography or be handwritten, rather tha...
The Roaming Dough final logo Suzanne went with her gut and opted for the simplest concept paired with a pizza cutter, which resonated most with her initial brief. We wanted to avoid using obvious colours from the Italian flag so I toned down the red accent colour and paired it with soft greys and a cream to create the colour palette. The logo has now been applied to a gazebo, a van and packaging!
Bee in the City bee design I designed this back in January for an art event coming to Manchester in the summer. They'll be 80+ 6ft bees all around the city and my design excitingly got shortlisted down from 350 designs. Unfortunately, it didn't find a sponsor last week but I'm still proud of it! It's called "Gothic Patternopolis" and features patterns inspired by 3 Gothic and Gothic Revival buildings in Manchester; the ...
Manchester Town Hall pattern The final pattern is based on the stained glass windows of the Town Hall in Manchester.
Manchester Cathedral pattern The stripes of my bee design feature this pattern based on the ceiling of Manchester Cathedral.
John Ryland's Library pattern This pattern is based on the staircase at John Ryland's Library in Manchester.
Future of Work development I took Emma's favourite marks and added colour and typography to add life to the work. The colours were based on imagery often found when the topic of Future of Work is discussed.
Future of Work second choice From the beginning there were two marks that stood out to Emma and in the end this was the runner up. This concept was based around the idea of how technology is usually depicted (with dots and lines.) I liked the idea of hiding a message within the mark so for each design, the dots are coloured to show a F and W. This design also would have been a flexible design so any of the 6 marks could h...
Future of Work logo This is the final logo for the Future of Work. The mark uses a leaf to represent the growth Emma helps organisations achieve and because the businesses are within the tech industry, the leaf veins have been replaced with lines and dots to represent connectivity. The logo is finished with a bright gradient of colours often used within her industry and the lovely typeface Soleil. Emma also aske...
Year in design I decided to write a Medium article and showcase all of my work from 2017. The blog showcases a lot of my personal work and exploration into surface pattern design that I don't often share on here! I'm now even more excited about 2018 than ever before! https://medium.com/@KatherineCory/my-2017-in-design-bff7ee1bf968
Copper and Wild Ideas Towards the end of last year, I started working with Dee from Copper and Wild. Dee is a product photographer and wanted to rebrand her business and relaunch in 2018. My brief was quite simple: pastels, geometric and typography. I began looking at the typography and I wanted to pair two typefaces together to generate a big contrast between the two words as I wanted to reflect how soft the metal...
Copper and Wild Glyphs Dee's favourite concept was the one that had the strongest sense of calligraphy and handwritten so I started experimenting with how I could use glyphs and swashes to create different versions for the word wild.
Copper and Wild developments I then relooked at pairing the wild with a much simpler Copper and replacing the tittle of Wild with an ampersand. As soon as I had designed the bottom logo, I knew that was the one.
Copper and Wild logo Dee's name was inspired by a Zelda game so I found screen captures from the game and generated this pastel colour palette to fit her brief. I also created a serious of geometric backgrounds, giving Dee lots of ways to use her new logo!
We Stand Together It's been fun experiencing the different hats of producing products. Learning to be patient with manufacturers has been a big lesson and I've enjoyed taking photos of the products and pulling together a website! Profits from each sale go to charity and I've already had to reorder the button badges as they've been so popular! http://we-stand-together.co.uk
We Stand Together This is a side project I've been working on over the last 6 weeks and is the first set of products I've made. Ever since the Manchester bombing I've wanted to help and raise money for the We Love Manchester Emergency Fund. I altered an illustration I already had designed of a bee, added hearts for wings and found manufacturers for patches, stickers and badges! http://we-stand-together.co.uk
We Stand Together T-shirt Following on from the success of my first few products I'm giving Mercht a go and running a campaign to raise even more money for the We Love Manchester Emergency Fund. If I sell 10 t-shirts they go to print! https://www.mercht.com/c/westandtogethergb
Records Sound the Same animation Within the system we decided to also change the number of waves inside of the circle and the colours of their fills. This creates multiple options for Sally to use! A full in depth case study can be found over on my Medium - https://medium.com/@KatherineCory/designing-a-brand-for-records-sound-the-same-fba8ea29526e
Records Sound the Same animation One of the main aims of Sally's rebrand was to create a flexible system, something she could change depending on the circumstances (i.e. a different logo for the website compared to her Keynote slides) but still remain part of the brand. Creating the rules of the system was challenging; I experimented with changing the waves colours, the colours of the fill and the direction of the waves. This...
Records Sound the Same brand The final brand grew from the circle waves ideas but introduced new brighter colours, still based on the EP, Records Sound the Same features on. The brand is a flexible system, giving Sally multiple colours, patterns and marks to use in various contexts. A full in depth case study can be found over on my Medium - https://medium.com/@KatherineCory/designing-a-brand-for-records-sound-the-same-f...
Records Sound the Same ideas The initial concepts didn't reflect the personable identity Sally wanted to achieve with her rebrand so I took the square sound wave and created a spiky one. The spiky concepts still weren't friendly enough so I created a curvy wave and experimented further with the wave. A full in depth case study can be found over on my Medium - https://medium.com/@KatherineCory/designing-a-brand-for-records...

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